Who Am I?Who Am I?

Concord, Massachusetts

Concord, Massachusetts

TranscendentalismTranscendentalism

Civil DisobedienceCivil Disobedience

RevolutionRevolution

Fortran

IdeasIdeasTechnologyTechnology

TeachingTeaching

Strategic Planning

Diffusion of Innovation

Faculty Engagement

Keys to SuccessKeys to Success

Strategic PlanningStrategic Planning

Vision: Institutional Goals Institutional Support Resource Allocation Infrastructure

Diffusion of InnovationsDiffusion of Innovations

Learning about an innovation Attitude towards innovation Adoption decision Implementation Decision to continue

Rogers, E. M. (1995) Diffusion of Innovations, New York: Free Press.

Faculty Engagement & SupportFaculty Engagement & Support

Waves/Readiness Assessment Training Support Resources Assessment

…and Marketing!

Source: Carl Berger, The Next Killer App: http://sitemaker.umich.edu/carat.copy/presentations__listed_by_date_

Collaboration as CatalystCollaboration as Catalyst

Results?Results?

450 workshop attendees in AY 06 representing 265 individuals

Fifty percent of faculty using Blackboard Innovation & Transformations 2007 Educational Technology Strategic

Planning Consistent survey satisfaction marks Faculty leading innovations – Ppt

Project PlanningProject Planning

Blackboard Makeover

Project SummaryProject Summary Planning

Front-end AnalysisMaking the CaseRoadmap

ImplementationSchedule

ResourcesCollaboration

Communication Buy-in

Assessment

IdeasIdeasTechnologyTechnology

TeachingTeaching

IdeasIdeasTechnologyTechnology

TeachingTeaching

NewNew

The Protestant ReformationThe Protestant Reformation

Creative CommonsCreative Commons

WikipediaWikipedia

Google BooksGoogle Books Library 2.0Library 2.0 MIT OpenCourseWare InitiativeMIT OpenCourseWare Initiative

$100 Laptop$100 LaptopDigital RepositoriesDigital Repositories

GlobalGlobal

Learning Learning

InfrastructureInfrastructure

The Information Reformation

“Of course I participate in the OpenCourseWare Initiative. I’m a teacher. What is teaching if it isn’t the diffusion of knowledge?”

-- Dr. Bertrand Delgutte MIT Neuroscientist

A Researcher’s Perspective

““PPeople are driven to discover knowledge and they are also driven to share it…Knowledge is a river that cannot be stopped.“ George Lechner Reference Librarian

A Librarian’s Perspective

“I always go to the journal articles that have full text online…even though the librarians tell me the really good ones are in the stacks.”

Undergraduate Student

A Student’s PerspectiveA Student’s Perspective

“American Higher Education…is an enterprise that has yet to address the fundamental issues of how academic programs and institutions must be transformed to serve the changing needs of a knowledge economy”

A Test of Leadership: Charting the Future of U.S. Higher EducationA Report by the Secretary of Education’s Commission on the Future of Higher Education, 2006

The Government’s PerspectiveThe Government’s Perspective

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What is Your PerspectiveWhat is Your Perspective

ObserverObserverAdvocateAdvocateCollaboratorCollaboratorResisterResisterStewardStewardActivistActivistLeaderLeader